Example sentences of "[verb] be used for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority will receive the ‘ Operation Enterprise ’ pack which has been used for a number of years and is known to the movement . |
| 2 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 3 | Salt has been used for many centuries as a preservative , whereby it is left on food to withdraw the moisture present by the process of osmosis . |
| 4 | Smoking is a very ancient art that has been used for hundreds of years to preserve fish and meat , preferred to salting because it does not destroy the natural flavour of the food to the same extent . |
| 5 | So real slate has been used for the roofs , York stone for the internal shopping court , and crafted plasterwork for the ceilings . |
| 6 | Mururoa has been used for nuclear tests since 1966 , at first in the air but , since 1981 , underground . |
| 7 | The exceptional elevations of Chiswick House , particularly at the rear with the marvellous old Cedars of Lebanon , has been used for countless ‘ back-grounds ’ for high-class advertisements , films and television programmes . |
| 8 | BELOW : The site was originally quite complex and has been used for cloth manufacture , flock and shoddy production . |
| 9 | Gloucester has always been an important centre for the water-borne movement of goods , its quays dating back many centuries , and as far back as anyone can trace , the Severn has been used for both the import and export of a multitude of commodities . |
| 10 | These names are either prescribed by law ( wholemeal bread ) or clearly descriptive ( beef stew and dumpling ) or , in the case of fish fingers , the name has been used for so long that everyone knows what they are . |
| 11 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 12 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 13 | For illustrative purposes , only a simple example has been given here ; however , the approach has been used for a number of major investigations , including a study of the procedures of a local authority for making policy decisions about housing stock , covering in excess of fifteen thousand buildings . |
| 14 | PLATO has been used for other library user education applications such at teaching the use of online catalogues ( see Chapter Three ) . |
| 15 | G. affinis is a small ( 4.6 cm long ) , surface-feeding minnow which originated in the United States and has been used for many years in many parts of the world to control mosquito larvae . |
| 16 | Rosewood has been used for the fingerboard and bridge , and the machineheads are once again Grovers . |
| 17 | Rosewood has been used for the bridges , the headstock facings and the fingerboards and , unusually , to cover the rear of the headstock as well . |
| 18 | Pearloid sheet has been used for the scratchplate , again reminiscent of bygone days . |
| 19 | Wooden dowel has been used for kite spars for as long as we can recall . |
| 20 | Mefenamic acid is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that has been used for other gynaecological problems . |
| 21 | Notice that the design which has been used for weaving does not show as with the sample woven with the smooth yarn , always select simple designs for weaving because the pattern in the fabric results almost entirely from the yarn and not from the needle selection . |
| 22 | A RARE Chinese vase worth up to £100,000 has been used for years as a flowerpot . |
| 23 | It is the same spray material that has been used for ages on potatoes and other crops , and can be a great help here also . |
| 24 | It has been used for a wide variety of projects so far . |
| 25 | This technique has been used for uranium , copper , fluorine and other relatively soluble elements . |
| 26 | Woodblock has been used for a beautiful , yet practical , floorcovering . |
| 27 | Here , the same powder-blue print has been used for the wallpaper , valance and chaircovering , while cream drapes combine to give an almost French flavour . |
| 28 | In this case it looks as though in fact there were " captains of thousands " and " captains of hundreds " , and that my metonymy or by abbreviation " thousand " has been used for " captains of thousands " ad " hundreds " . |
| 29 | The main method which has been used for obtaining chromosome preparations from pre-implantation embryos is again that of Tarkowski ( 5 ) and it is described in Table 2 . |
| 30 | Known for its skill and aggressiveness in dealing with its enemies it has been used for hunting from an early date in history . |